daps

English

Noun

daps

1. plural of dap

Verb

daps

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dap

Anagrams

• PADS, pads, SpAd, APDs, PDAs, APDS, SPAD, ASPD, spad, SaPD

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *déh₂ps ~ *dh₂pés

Proto-Italic *daps

Latin daps

From Proto-Italic *daps, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂ps (“portion, sacrificial meal”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “expenditure”), δάπτω (dáptō, “to devour”), Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrifice”). Akin to damnum (“loss, expense”). Doublet of dapinō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdaps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdaps]

Noun

daps f (genitive dapis); third declension

1. A sacrificial or solemn feast, religious banquet
2. A meal, banquet, feast

   Synonyms: convīvium, epulum, epulae, fēsta, dominium, festīvitās, cōmissātiō

3. (Medieval Latin) fortune, wealth

Declension

Note that the nominative is sometimes dapis and that the genitive plural and the dative singular do not occur.

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	daps	dapēs
genitive	dapis	dapum
dative	dapī	dapibus
accusative	dapem	dapēs
ablative	dape	dapibus
vocative	daps	dapēs

Derived terms

• dapālis
• dapifer
• indaps

Descendants

• → Italian: dape

References

• “daps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “daps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dapes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “daps”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “daps”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 301
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161